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Brian Mockenhaupt

Brian Mockenhaupt served two tours in Iraq as an infantryman with the 10th Mountain Division of the U.S. Army. He is a contributing editor for Outside and Reader's Digest and writes regularly for The Atlantic. Prior to enlisting, he worked as a newspaper reporter in the U.S., and in Phnom Penh at the Cambodia Daily.

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TakePart is the digital news and lifestyle magazine from Participant Media, the company behind such acclaimed documentaries as CITIZENFOUR, An Inconvenient Truth, and Food, Inc. and feature films including Lincoln and Spotlight.